James Thurber quotes

" Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. " # Anger # Love # Fear

" All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. " # Purpose # Death and Dying # Learning

" Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. " # Death and Dying # Men # Wealth

" There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. " # Writers and Writing

" You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. " # Lies and Lying # Fools and Foolishness # Time and Time Management

" You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. " # Persuasion # Life and Living # Failure

" Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone " # Questions # Love # Friends and Friendship

" Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light ... We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." ..., but I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. " # Anger # Comedy and Comedians # Writers and Writing

" I hate women because they always know where things are. " # Men and Women # Hatred # Women

" Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. " # Humor # Poetry and Poets # Chaos